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Thursday, November 22, 2012

All Quiet On the Southern Front?

As Hamas and the Arab world
continue to celebrate what they correctly perceive as a victory over Israel, FM
Lieberman and PM Netanyahu are making their best effort to minimize damage to
their electoral campaign.

Many Israelis are genuinely
disappointed with Bibi for failing to carry out a full-fledged attack on Gaza
despite more than a week of constant bombardment. Five Israelis, including four
civilians and one soldier, were killed during the days of the operation and 240
people were wounded. 162 Gazans died from Israeli bombing raids targeting Hamas
terrorists (according to Al-Jazeera), 150 according to BBC and “more than 140”
according to Yahoo News.

The Palestinian death toll in
comparison to the death toll of Israelis—the “bottom line”, if you will, is
what all the major news sources are reporting. What they fail to report is that
Israel is an independent state with a history of having to defend its borders
from enemy armies, while Hamas-lead Gaza is a terrorist-escape that has no
legitimacy in the eyes of the world community. They also fail to report than
yesterday, around the same number of Syrians were murdered by Assad’s regime
than Palestinians killed in a week of Israeli attacks.

It remained mostly quiet here, in
Jerusalem, throughout the conflict. Air sirens were sounded twice, once on
Friday afternoon as the religious community gathered in synagogues around town
to utter pre-Shabbat prayers; the other two days ago. Both missiles fired in
the direction of Jerusalem, the holiest city of the Jewish people, and one that
Muslims claim as their capital, landed in Gush Etzion. Arabs in Judea and
Samaria celebrated, but what’s even more surprising is the extent of their
celebrations here, where they get treated better than anywhere else in the Arab
world (Palestinians are commonly considered the “garbage of the Middle East” in
the majority of Arab/Muslim countries).

Again, questions of transfer come
to mind. What is the State of Israel to do when almost half its citizens are
opposed to its existence? What is going to happen when we become a minority
here? This is bound to take place within the next ten-fifteen years.

I’m far from convinced that
transferring the Palestinian Arabs from Israel is the answer to the
Arab-Israeli conflict. It’s definitely “an” answer, but is it morally right to
do? Is this something the Jewish people, a people known far and wide for their
staunch support of civil rights, and for their compassion for those suffering
from tyranny capable of resorting to such a harsh measure?

The factor that will answer this question is
just how far we’re pushed. How far will the Arab world go in order to make true
on their ancient dream of annihilating Israel along with the Jewish people
becomes a reality? Will Iran actually try to carry out a nuclear attack on us?
Will Egypt call off its peace agreement with Israel?

Israelis have become accustomed
to seemingly unending violence. There doesn’t seem to be a stop in sight—or any
clear solutions for that matter. I guess we just have to have more patience than
our enemies. While they continue trying to murder us off one by one, we need to
continue settling the hilltops of Judea and Samaria, building our families
here, sending our kids to the army, going to school, working...in short,
whatever it takes to maintain our historical presence in Israel.

We also need to keep from
panicking. The events of this and last week are nothing new. We’ve fought seven
wars since the inception of the State and nothing has changed. Living here, you
realize nothing is likely to change so long as the Arabs are ruled by terrorist
regimes. The bottom line is that we need to remain stronger they are, and more
dedicated to life than they are to death.

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I was born in Moscow, Russia. We immigrated to the US when I was 7 and I made Aliya to Israel at the age of 19. I attended Tel-Aviv U. where I received a BA in English Lit. and General Studies. I'm fluent in: English, Russian and Hebrew. I run a site and work for an Israel Advocacy firm. I enjoy running social media pages, performing hip hop, reading, writing, playing chess, running, swimming and playing basketball. I'm a huge Chicago sports as well as Maccabi Tel-Aviv fan.